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4.00 credits LIT3600 Modern Drama (Advanced Liberal Arts) This is a survey of Western drama from the late nineteenth century to the present day. We'll study representative works of major dramatists of this period such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, O'Neill, Pirandello, Beckett, O'Casey, Soyinka, Churchill, Wilson, Stoppard, Mamet, Kushner, and Parks. You'll research and report on theatre movements such as symbolism, expressionism, realism, naturalism, epic theatre, and theatre of the absurd. We'll consider the play as both text and performance, making use of theatre reviews, director's notes, interviews, photographs, videos, and, when possible, live performances. Grades will be determined by two papers, a midterm and a final exam, a group performance project, and a thoroughly researched oral presentation. Prerequisite: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)
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4.00 credits LIT3602 Industrial Fortunes: Work, Money, and Class in Victorian Literature 4 credit Advanced Liberal Art This course explores the profound impact of industrial capitalism on English writers of the nineteenth century. Many novels, poems, and essays of the period consider the acquisition and management of money: how are fortunes made and what are the ethical implications of making them We will read texts that represent both the middle and working classes caught in the machinery of industrial capitalism, by such authors as Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and George Eliot. Themes to be explored include: money and art, class and power, the ethics of labor, and the Victorian Captain of Industry. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (LVA, CVA, HSS)
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4.00 credits LIT3610 Gender and Economics in Three Nineteenth-Century Novels Advanced Liberal Arts This course explores issues of gender, domesticity, and industry in three nineteenth-century British novels. Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot all wrote about men, women, and work (factory work, authorship, domestic management, teaching, matchmaking -- even participation in the marriage market constituted a species of "work"), and they set this gender-based industry against a backdrop of larger economic and cultural concerns. We shall read Emma (Austen), Villette (Bronte), and Middlemarch (Eliot), considering the interplay of domestic and public social spheres and the roles of women and men in an increasingly money-based economy. 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (LVA, CVA, HSS)
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4.00 credits LIT3663 Limit Cases: International Literature, Film, and Economic Rights (Interdisciplinary Advanced Liberal Arts) This interdisciplinary course in literature and human rights will take as its main focus literary and cinematic representations of economic rights problems, and the contribution of literary artists to discourses on economic rights in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will begin by examining the challenges of ensuring economic rights in customary international law and policy, and will then study specific problems of land, resource, and wealth distribution. Cases and authors likely to be studied include water and mega-dams in India (Arundhati Roy); oil in Nigeria (Ken Saro-Wiwa); sugar in the Caribbean (Toni Morrison; Alan Cambeira); urban and rural land use (Rigoberta Menchu, Fernando Mereilles, Ann Petry, Mike Davis); the global trade in humans (Kevin Bales, Rohinton Mistry, Stephen Frears). Prerequisite: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)
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4.00 credits Weeks 1 - 6 TR Week 7 T Final Exam Thu, July 2 1:30-3:30pm LIT3691 Lively Literary Massachusetts Advanced Liberal Arts Until the early 19th Century, the majority of American writers imitated both the style and the substance of European writers; in other words, there was simply nothing uniquely American about their work. That history of imitation was to change after the poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, a lifelong Massachusetts resident, delivered his famous essay The American Scholar in 1837. In it, Emerson argued that in order for there to be a uniquely American Culture and Literature, there must not only be a uniquely American subject, but also a new way of writing. Emerson proposed that the subject be Nature. The great Naturalist Henry David Thoreau heeded Emerson's call and headed out to the banks of Walden Pond, where he lived in relative solitude for two years. In a quiet house in Amherst, Emily Dickinson ignored the popular sonnet form with its rigid rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter and revolutionized poetry. In Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne confronted the history of the Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials in his short stories and novels. In western Massachusetts, Herman Melville looked up at Mount Greylock and conceived his most famous novel Moby Dick. In Boston, Margaret Fuller considered the state of women in the 19th Century. Together, in less than fifty years, these six writers composed some of the most famous works of American Literature. In this course, we will not only read essays, poems and novels by these writers, we will also venture out of the classroom and journey to the historic sites that inspired them. We will take three exciting field trips. Our first will be to Concord where we will walk out to Walden Pond, visit the Writer's Section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, tour Emerson's House and visit the Concord Museum. Our second will be to Amherst to see Emily Dickinson's house and the Amherst History Museum, among other sites. Our third will be to Salem where we will tour The House of the Seven Gables, the oldest surviving 17th century wooden mansion in New England in which Hawthorne based his novel of the same name; and the Custom's House where Hawthone once worked. On the days we are in the classroom, we will discuss a plethora of these authors' great works. Students will be responsible for admission and parking fees, which will run no more than $60. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (CVA, LVA, HSS)
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4.00 credits LIT3693 Play, Performance, Perspective: The London Stage in Winter (Advanced Liberal Arts) Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
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3.00 credits Week 1 TR May 19 and 21 Week 2 TWR May 26*, 27 & 28* (Institute Contemporary Art & Museum of Fine Arts) Week 3 MTR June 1, 2*, & 4 (Tuesday's field trip estimated time of return is 5:30 PM) Week 4 MTR June 8*, 9, & 11* *FIELD TRIP DATES: Be sure to allow sufficient time between classes to travel to/from off-site locations. Students are responsible for their own transportation Final Assignment Due: on or before 1:30 PM, July 2nd LVA2405 Art as a Visual Language (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Develop experience in learning to read the visual language of art painting, sculpture and architecture and develop personal aesthetic standards through study and discussion of slides, field trips, readings and museum visits. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H
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3.00 Credits
3.00 credits LVA2407 International Cinema (Intermediate Liberal Arts) International Cinema provides an overview of the history and aesthetics of films from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Students will analyze films as cultural artifacts, tied to and influenced by the cultures that give rise to them. Weekly film screenings will be complemented by readings in the history and theory of various national cinemas. ALL FILMS ARE IN THEIR ORIGINAL LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H
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